TALOS-2022-1460 KiCad EDA Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon GCode/Dcode parsing stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability

Summary

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon GCode/Dcode parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc0. A specially-crafted gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Tested Versions

KiCad EDA 6.0.1
KiCad EDA master commit de006fc0

Product URLs

KiCad EDA - https://www.kicad.org/

CVSSv3 Score

8.8 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow